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Fifty years have passed, but memo. ries of the Scopes monkey trial live on in Tennessee. Last year, the Tennessee Legislature passed a “Genesis law” which required that all of the state's biology textbooks give equal treatment to all theories of the creation of man, including the Biblical version. Now the Nashville Chancellery Court, which rules on all civil challenges to state laws, has ruled that the “Genesis law” is unconstitutional, because it runs counter to the constitutional doctrine of separation of church and state. State legislative leaders are undecided about whether they will attempt to pass a new version of the law next year.

■■ Childbirth

Nine months ago, Joanne D. Chesimalt was on trial for a Bronx bank robbery. She and her co‐defendant, Fred Hilton, were carefully guarded: Federal officials feared that fellow Black Liberation Army members might attempt to free them. Though she was seldom alone with anyone, Mrs. Chesimard became pregnant. Despite defense efforts to have the proceedings halted because of her condition, the trial continued. She was acquitted. Last week she gave birth to a six. pound girl In a Queens hospital. She still faces two trials for murder and one for attempted murder.

■The Revolutionary

After his release by leftist kidnapers in Mexico, Jose Guadalupe Zuno Hernandez had a few words for his son‐inlaw, Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez. The Mexican Government, he said, had “let itself come under control of the reactionary forces of the world.” His kidnapers, said Mr. Zuno, were not nearly as dangerous to Mexico as the United States Central Intelligence Agency. The 83‐year‐old Mr. Zuno, who is himself a prominent politician in his home state of Jalisco, was released unharmed and without payment of ransom.

■ Sentenced to Die

Marcus Wayne Chenault has been convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of Mrs. Martin Luther King Sr. in Atlanta last June. The verdict will automatically be appealed. Georgia's capital punishment statute is now being appealed before the Georgia Supreme Court. After the verdict was announced, Chenault blew kisses at the jurors and pointed his finger, gunlike, at the judge and prosecutors. Earlier, two psychiatrists had testified that Chenault knew right from wrong when he shot Mrs. King.

■ Prisoners Sue

With the third anniversary of the Attica rebellion, a group of prisoners has filed a suit seeking $100‐million in damages against former Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and other state officals, charging that the prisoners’ rights were violated by use of excessive force. A total of 43 persons, prisoners and guards were killed at the upstate correctional facility after Mr. Rockefeller ordered state police into the prison. The suit charges that the former Governor used force “calculated to cause unnecessary and inexcusable death, serious injury, terror and suffering.”